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Peak Design’s Outdoor Backpack is a more versatile everyday bag

Improves upon perfection, but it’s not flawless.

Here in 2024, I need a bag to also carry gear like a drone and controller; an action camera with a wireless mic and selfie stick; and maybe even a Starlink Mini dish with a portable solar panel to keep everything connected and charged. The bag’s combination of sleek and soft recycled materials adorned with gray, black, and orange embellishments looks fantastic and has only minor blemishes after sitting in dirt, rough gravel, and that congealed goo that accumulates on barroom floors. I quickly came around to Peak Design’s modular approach that combines lightweight (but not ultralight) materials of the backpack with impact protection provided by Camera Cubes like the “smedium” (top) and small (bottom), shown unzipped here.

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